Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-17
THE QUEEN OF sALEsWoMEN.
An Artist In Whose Hand the Customer
Was rs Helpless as an Infant.

An Artist in Whose Hand the Customer
Was rs Helpless ss AN Infant.
A conversation overheard; the speakers
are feminine. GLOW did you come to buy
those shoesS They are very handsome,
but not at all your usual style" "Well,
I've been pretending to everybody that l
changed my mind about square toes, and
that | bought them because | liked them,
but III confess to you that it was no such
thing; ! bought them because the sales
woman WAS clever enough to make me do
it, "She must nave been clever in
deed" Eyes. / don't wonder you say
SO; l generally take pleasure in declaring
my independence of the usual sales
woman's dictum. When she tells me
what Is the style, and what she is buying
for herself, and what will just suit me, l
wouldn't buy what she recommends if /
wanted 1t SO much that / went to another
shop and got identically the same thing;
but the woman that sold me these shoes
was an artist in whose hands / WAS but q
helpless infant. To begin with, she was
a bright, CHEEKY little thing, and struck
me dumb with amazement from the first
by waiting on me rs If 1t were a pleasure
for her to do it,
Then she brought out these shoes with
the remark that she was SO glad she had
this n pair Of this kind, for she knew
they would fit me, as they mad been made
to order, SO much better than the regular
stock. How did It come that shoes made
to order were for sale to meY Why the
lady who ordered them had forced the
measurer to take her measure too small,
she was SO anxious To have little feet, but
when she came TO try them they were i'm
possible. She had gotten them SO small
that she simply could not stand up in
them, but then what perfection they were
on me; wouldn't | just stand up and walk
about in them; did ever any one see such
a combination OF ease and elegance? OF
course,' she went on, you never could
wear a cheap shoe; they never make
cheap shoes with hat high arched instep.
Look at othersy Oh, yes, certainly and
she came back rs pleasantly as possible
with several pairs. But for them she had
nothing IN particular to say, and she had
by this time, by her adroit fiattery of my
feet, inspired me with a respect for her
judgment-you know we do so respect
the judgment Of the people that admire
us-that | quite hung my decision on her
approval.
THE flattery was Of the most artistic
kind; it was all said with the simplest,
most unconscious air of stating n fact, and
when she said how these broad toes made
n small FOOT look smaller still, though they
were too conspicuous for a big one, / sur
rendered and bought a shoe such as l
never expected TO wear. or course, the
fact is that they were ordered, and when
they were thrown back on their hands
they were too narrow TO be generally sal
able. That queen of saleswomen knew
that they We're the ones above all others
TO get rid of, and willy or nilly, SO far rs |
was concerned, she sold them to me. But
/ tiatter myself there are not three others
in New York who could nave lone it; and
] am willing to put up with a purchase l
don't altogether like in consideration of
having found an agreeable -
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